Guggenheim Quotes & Sayings

I think 'Green Lantern' has the potential to be a very highly regarded superhero movie. We're approaching it with such respect and such care. — Marc Guggenheim

The nice thing about 'Arrow' is we never say never on the show. Hopefully the show will have a nice long life, and all manner of things can potentially happen. — Marc Guggenheim

One of things we say on 'Arrow' is, 'The only constant is evolution.' — Marc Guggenheim

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived. — David Rockefeller

All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful. — Solomon R. Guggenheim

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open. — Delphine Arnault

I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture. — Marc Guggenheim

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure. — Eduardo Chillida

It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff. — Marc Guggenheim

Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today. — Randall Jarrell

The similarity between Iron Man and Green Lantern is, unlike Superman or any of the X-Men or Spider-Man, anyone can be Green Lantern or Iron Man. All you need is the ring or the suit. — Marc Guggenheim

[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's? — Peggy Guggenheim

I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward. — Benjamin Guggenheim

I personally always hated Pop art. — Peggy Guggenheim

The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story. — Marc Guggenheim

He who cannot revenge himself is weak. He who will not is comtemptible. — Marc Guggenheim

'The Sixth Sense' was a very enjoyable, successful movie despite the fact that there were plenty of people, including myself, who saw the ending coming. — Marc Guggenheim

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. — Peggy Guggenheim

The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement. — B.C. Forbes

The first half of my TV career, I didn't do any genre at all. — Marc Guggenheim

I'm a very big believer that the reason you've seen this huge surge in superheroes both on television and in film is ... part of it of course is zeitgeist. There's no denying that there's a huge appetite on the part of the audience in both TV and film for these kind of adventures. — Marc Guggenheim

Time management is really key for me. — Marc Guggenheim

I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly. — Marc Guggenheim

We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations. — Marc Guggenheim

In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond. — Marc Guggenheim

I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. — Kurt Vonnegut

I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange. — Charles Guggenheim

All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination. — Marc Guggenheim

We've enjoyed laying the foundation for 'The Flash' series. — Marc Guggenheim

Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner. — Marc Guggenheim

One of the things I do well - I think, anyway - is combining different tones. — Marc Guggenheim

We have several projects in the pipeline, but one of the rules we set for ourselves is we don't want to solicit or announce any projects that aren't ready for publication. I'm personally really tired of reading about titles that never come out. — Marc Guggenheim

What I took away from my 'Flashforward' experience is that when you're doing a serialized mythology show, you put your foot on the gas, and you do not take it off. — Marc Guggenheim

I happen to like dark, and I like the fact that 'Arrow' is a pretty dark show, particularly for a network show. — Marc Guggenheim

I have made more documentaries in my time than I think I care to remember, though I am immensely proud of all my work. — Charles Guggenheim

I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie. — Marc Guggenheim

evidence for life after death? Wouldn't they — Bill Guggenheim

I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it. — Peggy Guggenheim

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism. — Peggy Guggenheim

As always, things happen sooner rather than later on 'Arrow.' — Marc Guggenheim

With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do. — Marc Guggenheim

There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle. — Marc Guggenheim

I thought it would be nice to marry Virgil [Thomson] to have a musical background, but I never got far with the project. — Peggy Guggenheim

I am excited to be part of the dynamic Guggenheim family of companies. — Ross Levinsohn

Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe. — Marc Guggenheim

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake. — Peggy Guggenheim

I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories. — Marc Guggenheim

Every season, we spend what really should be our hiatus, and what really should be me relaxing on a beach, planning out the whole season. — Marc Guggenheim

It is always assumed that Venice is the ideal place for a honeymoon. This is a grave error. To live in Venice or even to visit it means that you fall in love with the city itself. There is nothing left over in your heart for anyone else. — Peggy Guggenheim

I wore one of my Tanguy earrings and one made by Calder in order to show my impartiality between Surrealist and Abstract Art. — Peggy Guggenheim

I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake. — David Chipperfield

Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg are fantastic producers and showrunners, and they lead a very, very positive, fun, creative environment to work in and to work with. — Geoff Johns

We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine. — Marc Guggenheim

That's one of the perks of my job, is getting to see what the Internet does. — Marc Guggenheim

The term 'Consulting Producer' is extraordinarily nebulous in TV, and it really means something different depending on the show and the specific circumstances negotiated. — Marc Guggenheim

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well. — Jerry Lewis

There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention. — Charles Guggenheim

I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours.
Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim

In DC Comics, Blue Devil is a superhero who came out of a movie. — Marc Guggenheim

Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this gallery and began showing some things that caused a little talk, amongst a lot of other things. — Lee Krasner

I've never given much thought to grants but now that LeRoi Jones has a Guggenheim I have to consider the possibility of a new era, for good or ill. So if you're sitting down there on a bundle of loose cash I'd appreciate any and all advice as to how I might lay my hands on some of it.
- in a letter to Richard Scowcroft dated 5/13/1965 — Hunter S. Thompson

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes. — Judy Dater

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart. — Peggy Guggenheim

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring. — Charles Guggenheim

If Hollywood is going to keep going, the writers need to be creatively fulfilled by creating their own things. We need to generate new ideas, so we're not always cannibalizing old ones. — Marc Guggenheim

I walked all around it [the Guggenheim Bilbao] and couldn't find one clear, clean shot. To make things worse, the weather was lousy. Nothing about this rang commercial money shot. In a situation like this there's only one thing to do: forget about pleasing editors, please yourself. — Robert Polidori

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it. — Charles Guggenheim

When the nuns came to be blessed by the Patriarch, who on special holy days, went by my house in a motorboat, I detached the phallus of the horseman and hid it in a drawer. I also did this on certain days when I had to receive stuffy visitors, but occasionally I forgot, and when confronted with this phallus found myself in great embarrassment. The only thing to do in such cases was to ignore it. In Venice a legend spread that I had several phalluses of different sizes, like spare parts, which I used on different occasions. — Peggy Guggenheim

I don't collect anymore. Everything is so terribly expensive. I don't see anything I like anyhow. — Peggy Guggenheim

I noticed that 'Lost' had sort of worn out our welcome; because of 'Lost,' audiences were no longer being patient with slow reveals: they wanted answers quickly, and they wanted story to develop much faster. — Marc Guggenheim

Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim. That Gehry is a great artist I have no doubt, but talent and determination are no warrant against confusion, nor are they a guaranty to produce great art. — Leon Krier

I'm not like Jonathan Hickman, who's able to sort of plot out three years of a book ahead of time. I'm much more of a guy who plots out an arc or two at a time. — Marc Guggenheim

I'm a huge fan of 'The Six Million Dollar Man' and I love the episodes where they would cross over with 'The Bionic Woman.' — Marc Guggenheim

The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. — Bill Guggenheim, Judy Guggenheim

I think comic books have come an incredibly far way, and I want to make sure we don't take a step back. I certainly don't want my name on a movie that would take it back. — Marc Guggenheim

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox. — Jane Smiley

Sooner or later, we all go through a crucible. I'm guessing your's was that island. Most believe there are two types of people who go into a crucible: the ones who grow stronger from the experience and survive it, and the ones who die. But there's a third type: the ones who learn to love the fire. They chose to stay in their crucible because it's easier to embrace the pain when it's all you know anymore, — Marc Guggenheim

ANTHONY DOERR is the author of the story collections Memory Wall and The Shell Collector, the novel About Grace, and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome. He has won numerous prizes both in the United States and overseas, including four O. Henry Prizes, three Pushcart Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, the National Magazine Award for fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Raised in Cleveland, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons. — Anthony Doerr

Some photographers could vomit on a piece of paper and call it art, you know ... Hang it in the Guggenheim, or whatever. Sell a print for two hundred pounds? But I can't do that. I just
Maybe I have too much respect for walls ... or something. — Pansy Schneider-Horst

The one thing that's always very safe to say with 'Arrow' is never make assumptions. — Marc Guggenheim

On 'Arrow,' we have Ray Palmer and Roy Harper, and if you call Roy 'Ray' and Ray 'Roy,' you have to put money into the jar. — Marc Guggenheim

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure. — Peggy Guggenheim

To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing. — Peggy Guggenheim

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously, — Solomon R. Guggenheim

Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon ... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore. — Marc Guggenheim

Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim. — Paul Goldberger

Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction. — Marc Guggenheim

I took advice from none but the best. I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert. — Peggy Guggenheim

Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I ... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium. — Marc Guggenheim

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day. — Peggy Guggenheim

I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story. — Marc Guggenheim

It's always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen. — Marc Guggenheim

Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him? — Marc Guggenheim

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track. — Marc Guggenheim

This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed. — Harry Frank Guggenheim

I'm not much of a salesman. I prefer the soft sell and the honest approach. — Marc Guggenheim

Sometimes Peggy herself would sell tickets to her museum, and if tourists asked her if Mrs. Guggenheim was still alive, she'd assure them she wasn't. — Edmund White

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers. — Marc Guggenheim

I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am interested in. I don't care about motorcycles and Armani suits. — Chuck Close

With 'The Flash' in existence, there's no real compelling reason for us to do superpowers on 'Arrow.' — Marc Guggenheim